Making Your Own Social Bookmarks
Spent most of my Saturday trying to add social bookmarks to my site, first I checked with Derek but found the plug-in that he recommended never worked properly on my site, so I went around and tried around another 4 plug-ins and believe it or not they also never worked. So I was at the point of giving up when I stumbled on AvgJoeBlogger who wrote the codes for creating your own social bookmarks plug-in, which I will show you later, but first some important info.
Why use Social Bookmarks?
Social bookmarking can make a huge difference to any ones blog, if you get to the front page of these websites then you can see an increase surge of traffic. But to be able to get on the front page visitors are required to vote and this is where the social bookmarks come in.
4th Edition of Weekend Links
Its been almost 3 weeks since my weekend links, mainly due to the fact I was in process of swapping my blog format to Wordpress , and as you are all aware its my chance to reward my active readers who comment on my site by featuring a post and a link too them. If you would like your name up on the screen kindly comment on my posts and you may just appear in future in this section.
Don’t forget I have added the plug-in for do-follow, so now you will be credited with a back link with PageRank too.
Here’s this weeks voices on my site:
- Etienne Teo talks about Technorati tumbles down like Jack and Jill and is this weeks most active reader.
- James asks the question should you join in the BlogRush?
- Saige talks about ABC's new comedy called Caveman
- Sam shows us this blogging work station in the post would you like to take the grand tour?
- Sutocu asks is PageRank export finally underway?
- Jayne shows us some Nitfy new Amazon Widgets
Congratulations people and thanks for your commenting on my site!
Visionbedding.com- Basketball
Love basketball, and dream to be the next James LeBron? Or maybe the legend himself Michael Jordan? I can’t guarantee that but I like to show you how you can make your bed into a Basketball Bedding theme.
Visionbedding.com has created some amazing designs for there bedding, pillows and more, they have a large range of sports themes to choose from, but today we going look at the basketball theme.
You may upload your favorite picture of your basketball all star or you can choose from the range in there shop online. Either way you are guaranteed to find the dream bedding for you.
Is PageRank coming? And who cares?
That’s the million dollar question… since I wrote about PageRank back on 25th July and my prediction the PageRank will be around end July to early August 2007 which was based on the 2 years worth of data from Google. But at that time the days went by then became weeks until I forgot about the latest update…. But we all agree its clearly long over due.
Then suddenly Bryan Clark of onemansgoal mentioned he got his first PageRank (Rank 5) which appeared then disappeared as fast, I was excited again to search to see if the PageRank machine was calculating again. So I went though my 70 or so blogs that I regularly follow to see if any other bloggers had any surges in there PageRank as Bryan had.
Promoting your website using Digg
While Digg.com may not be quite as popular as other sites like Myspace, Digg can be an excellent way to generate traffic and links to your site. It could be possible to gain hundreds of visitors a day within one day of using Digg.
How to use Digg to generate traffic?
Digg is a free service and you can submit as many pages as you like, but be careful and don’t be greedy as Digg does not like and may ban your site if you only submit one or two site's articles. The best tip will be to submit pages from your site, and any other interesting pages from other sites you find online. Try using long keywords within your title of your Digg entry and link back to your site.
My Revamped Blog…
As you are aware the month of August had been the month to revamp the look of your blog by changing the template, there are many reason for doing this and generally it comes down to professionalism and readability of the blog to the viewers.
Three major bloggers changed their templates namely, Problogger, JohnChow and Calocab. There reasoning can be explained below:
Problogger had his reasons of the change to a new blog face lift, he quoted that “I always find a fresh coat of paint can really lift a room, a haircut can improve a mood and a blog redesign can get the creative juices flowing again.“
Johnchow is all about making money online and if you are serious in making money online then you would be interesting in why he also did a makeover “The old theme was stuck at $12,500 a month and I wasn’t going to break out of that unless I do a redesign. This is all part of the make money online process. I didn’t do a redesign for the sake of a redesign.”
Carlocab changed his blog design without announcing it to the crowd but i believe most of his readers catch his intention of bringing a better and refreshing look from his older skin.
Or maybe just leave me a few words of encouragement as I continue to endeavor to bring you quality content.
I would like to finish by thanking Etienne Teo for allowing me to use some of this content, and stay turned as he is currently revamping this blog design too, i seen a early version and its looking good.
Tricks to increase comments on your blog
1. Fake your comments– If were all honest we have all done it to start our blogs off as there’s nothing worse than a empty blog when it’s started. People don’t like starting off the conversation but they don’t mind joining in. Either you can call your family to write a comment or two or just hire someone to do it ().It’s been called “content Seeding”
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